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Daily baseball statistical analysis and commentarySun, 18 Feb 2018 05:34:00 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4By: ben iannozzihttps://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/boston-unlikely-to-add-starter/#comment-2115621
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:47:24 +0000http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=75063#comment-2115621What Scott Kazmir has agreat arm and would worth the risk what do others think?
]]>By: razorhttps://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/boston-unlikely-to-add-starter/#comment-2114451
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:24:24 +0000http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=75063#comment-2114451Spot on!!The sox live in fear of spending as much..or more..than the Yanks.After all,a good portion of the “extended”Sox nation are more Yankee haters than they are Sox lovers…and many times its because they believe the Yanks “buy” championships!The Sox gave out a tragic contract to Crawford,then attempted to replenish their farm system(depleted by the A-Gon trade)by offering arbitration to Ortiz,who they valued at 2yrs/18 million…The delayed announcement of A-Gons new contract was obviously a collusion by both parties to avoid the luxury tax,and so is the decision to not add to this pitching staff!The sox obviosly went”All In”last year and now they are trying to be “fiscally responsible”….PAY YOUR TAXES
]]>By: pfthttps://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/boston-unlikely-to-add-starter/#comment-2112912
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:27:26 +0000http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=75063#comment-2112912If Beckett, Lester and Buchholz can stay healthy for a whole season, big if, the Red Sox win 95 games (barring disaster to key position players). That should be enough for a WC spot, especially if there are 2 WC’s/

Folks don’t understand how bad the Red Sox starters were last year after Beckett and Lester, with Daisuke and Buchholz on the DL. Lackey, Wake, Bedard, Miller, etc were awful. Yet they played 650 ball for 80% of the season. Bard and Aceves will be upgrades, even if they only start 240 IP combined with the left given to Doubront, Miller, and the reclamation projects.

]]>By: billhttps://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/boston-unlikely-to-add-starter/#comment-2111587
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:48:57 +0000http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=75063#comment-2111587“As is” the Red Sox are a 4th place finisher in the Eastern division….Why..The Yankees vastly improved their starting rotation, the Rays have a very good proven young starting rotation,,, Toronto,,,,yes Toronto with their excellent manager with skills in the pitching arena are now going to be 3rd…..Unless something is in the wind to get an ACE that we are not aware of…and why should we be…Good thing we have hitting..
]]>By: Greghttps://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/boston-unlikely-to-add-starter/#comment-2107142
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:23:25 +0000http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=75063#comment-2107142He’s recovering from Tommy John surgery. Aside from his effect on the payroll, he’s no more a candidate to pitch in 2012 than Bill Lee is.
]]>By: Stevehttps://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/boston-unlikely-to-add-starter/#comment-2106904
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:51:22 +0000http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=75063#comment-2106904Right, and Padilla might be detained in Nicaragua for failure to pay child support.

So you can add deadbeat dad to his already impressive resume of alcoholic head-hunter!

Should ease those clubhouse concerns from last season…

]]>By: MudvilleNinehttps://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/boston-unlikely-to-add-starter/#comment-2106840
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:45:38 +0000http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=75063#comment-2106840Does Padilla’s criminal investigation change your opinion?
]]>By: ben whttps://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/boston-unlikely-to-add-starter/#comment-2106743
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:25:35 +0000http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=75063#comment-2106743@ Jonathon I think we agree, but are approaching this in different ways. No one in this thread should be calling for the demise of the 2012 Sox.

However, I get that it’s becoming not uncommon to write the Sox off because of the collapse. Clearly, those who are overvaluing the recency of September’s collapse are wrong to do so as the Sox remain one of four really good teams in the division.

However, because of that increased difficulty, it’s not really worthwhile to compare them to their World Series teams of the past. The Sox are going to be good, absolutely. The thing is, so are 5 or 6 other teams…and with an assist to the unbalanced schedule, both LA and Texas might have lesser true talent, but more wins in the end than 2 of the AL East teams. Boston could win the WS or miss the playoffs entirely, and either outcome wouldn’t shock me.

As for toronto…we’ll see. If Lawrie’s base is really .280/20/20 and AA turns his minor league pitching depth into Matt Cain or someone at the deadline, I’m not sure Toronto is that far back. Those are big “Ifs”, of course…

]]>By: Jonathanhttps://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/boston-unlikely-to-add-starter/#comment-2106716
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:17:13 +0000http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=75063#comment-2106716Anecdotally, I’ll add that Buchholz got torn apart in the bigs in 2008, the last season where he sported a high K/9, went back to the minors for 2008 and came back with a substantially lowered K/9, but dramatically improved results.

Maybe he simply isn’t destined to be a big strikeout pitcher at the big league level.

]]>By: Jonathanhttps://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/boston-unlikely-to-add-starter/#comment-2106688
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:11:21 +0000http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=75063#comment-2106688Frankly, it looks like a matter of more of an attempt to pitch to contact. His K/9 has plummeted from nearly 1 K/IP to the mid 6 K/9 territory he’s been in since 2009. His GB% has gone up too, though while keeping a steadily low BABIP and watching his BB/9 drop steadily through his MLB career.

His BABIP has obviously substantially dropped since his prospect days, but without a GB% readily available for his MiLB stats, it’s hard to conclude decisively, but it looks at first glance like he’s making a concentrated effort to keep it in the strike zone and induce weak contact, which the increased GB% and decreased BABIP seem to indicate.

Lending more likelihood to that theory is that he started using a cutter last year, a pitch that tends to induce weak contact for an easy out.

The decreased K/9 MAY be cause for concern, but the current trend indicates there’s good odds that Buchholz is just going for weak contact over strikeouts.